Screenplay: Takao Yanai
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Takao Yanai. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
There Was a Father
1942 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Yasujirō Ozu
Cast Chishu Ryu · Shûji Sano · Shin Saburi · Takeshi Sakamoto
Plot Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
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Enoken's Record of a Fistfight Crazy Generation
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan
Direction Kunio Watanabe
Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Hiroshi Horiguchi · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Reiko Miyagawa
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Maihime no koyomi
1935 · Movie · min. · Japan
Direction Yasushi Sasaki
Cast Hideo Hongô · Sojin · Mitsuyo Mizushima
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Twenty-Year-Old Youth
1946 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan
Direction Yasushi Sasaki
Cast Shirô Ôsaka · Takeshi Sakamoto · Michiko Ikuno · Toyo Takahashi
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Enraptured
1961 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan
Direction Hideo Ôba
Cast Mariko Okada · Keiji Sada · Shima Iwashita · Kakuko Chino
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Kimi no na wa: Dai-san-bu
1954 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
Direction Hideo Ôba
Cast Chikage Awashima · Haruyo Ichikawa · Akio Isono · Kyoko Kami
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Mother
1929 · Movie · 34 min. · Japan
Direction Hôtei Nomura
Cast Yoshiko Kawada · Reikichi Kawamura · Shoichi Kofujita · Kenichi Miyajima
Plot Hideko Takamine's first film at the age of 5. A young banker dies young and leaves behind his wife Asako and two children. Asako is determined to offer the children...
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Spring Comes from the Ladies
1932 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Yasujirō Ozu
Cast Jiro Shirota · Tatsuo Saito · Yukiko Inoue · Hiroko Izumi
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Hard Times
1930 · Movie · 27 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Tatsuo Saito · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tomio Aoki · Tokuji Kobayashi
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Love Old and New
1961 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan
Direction Masahiro Shinoda
Cast Yusuke Kawazu · Miyuki Kuwano · Masayuki Mori · Yuki Tominaga
Plot Hatsuko, a young girl on the verge of graduating from high school, suffers a motorcycle accident while riding with her boyfriend Fusao. The doctor treating her at the hospital happens...
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Hirenge
1936 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan
Direction Yasushi Sasaki
Cast Michiko Kuwano · Shinyo Nara · Emiko Yagumo · Setsuko Shinobu
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Ano michi kono michi
1936 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan
Direction Yasushi Sasaki
Cast Masao Hayama · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Shinobu Aoki · Hideo Hongô
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Aizen tsubaki
1940 · Movie · min. · Japan
Direction Yasushi Sasaki
Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Mitsuko Mito · Kuniko Miyake · Daijirô Natsukawa
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Kimi no na wa: Dai-ni-bu
1953 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Hideo Ôba
Cast Keiko Awaji · Chikage Awashima · Kimie Hayashi · Shinichi Himori
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Two Eyes
1933 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Yukichi Iwata · Kinuyo Tanaka · Yumeko Aizome · Mitsugu Fujii
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Ejima and Ikushima
1955 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan
Direction Hideo Ôba
Cast Chikage Awashima · Ebizo Ichikawa · Mitsuko Kusabue · Yatsuko Tan'ami
Plot Ejima, a straightforward and loyal lady-in-waiting to the mother of the Shogun, is invited by her mistress, almost forced, to violate the harem's protocol by having Ikushima, a kabuki actor,...
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Z men seishun totsugeki-tai
1936 · Movie · min. · Japan
Direction Yasushi Sasaki
Cast Shûji Sano · Hiroko Kawasaki · Masami Morikawa · Shin Tokudaiji
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Love is Strength
1930 · Movie · 65 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Kenji Kimura · Ichirô Yuki · Eiko Takamatsu · Tokio Seki
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What Is Your Name?
1953 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan
Direction Hideo Ôba
Cast Keiko Kishi · Keiji Sada
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Haha no kinembi
1943 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan
Direction Yasushi Sasaki
Cast Takashi Shimura · Shin Saburi · Koji Mitsui · Yosuke Hansawa
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